Numb. xxxii. 41, 42; Deut. iii. 14. We learn from Judg. x. 3, 4, that Jair was one of the judges, so that the conquest of Havoth-Jair must have taken place long after the death of Moses. Footnote 237: Now Dar’at (pronounced Azr’ât by the Bedâwin) and Tell-Ashtereh. Footnote 238: Zippor of Gaza was the name of the father of a certain Baal- ... whose servant carried letters in the third year of Meneptah II. from Egypt to Khai, the Egyptian governor of the fellahin or Perizzites of Palestine, and the king of Tyre (Brugsch, _Egypt under the Pharaohs_, Eng. tr., second edit., ii., p. 126). Footnote 239: Ammiya is said to have been seized by Ebed-Asherah the Amorite (_The Tel el-Amarna Tablets in the British Museum_, 12. 25., 15. 27). It is also called Amma (_ib._ 17. 7., 37. 58, where it is associated with Ubi, the Aup of the Egyptian inscriptions) and Ammi (W. and A. 89. 13). Footnote 240: If the two Balaams, ‘son of Beor,’ are really the same person, Edomite and Israelitish history will have handed down two different conceptions of him. The Israelitish chronology, moreover, would make it impossible for him to have been the _first_ Edomite king (see Numb. xx. 14). Footnote 241: Sheth are the Sutu of the Assyrian inscriptions, the Sittiu or ‘Archers’ of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Bedâwin of modern geography. The Beni-Sheth will be the Midianite Bedâwin who are associated with the Moabites in the Pentateuch (Numb. xxii. 4, 7; xxv. 1-18; xxxi. 8). Footnote 242: _Records of the Past_, new ser., iii. pp. 61-65. Footnote 243: